Talk:Inis Beag
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Enquiring minds want to know: what was the real name of this island, and was it the inspiration for Craggy Island in Father Ted?
There are lots of islands in that area that could potentially qualify, and although this page [1] contains a map, its detail does not appear to me to map perfectly onto the real geography of the most likely candidate area [2], so the actual location of Inis Beag still remains vague. -- The Anome 11:59, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
this page makes no sense. it explains a nickname of a cultural anthropologist yet there isn't an article on John Cowan Messenger as of yet. this is really strange. it sems to melike this is backwards. there should be an article about the man himself with this being but a section of it. i would suggest making the article "John Cowan Messenger" and moving this information to it. --Tainter 20:33, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
- This article is about the island community, not Messenger himself. Inis Beag appears, with evidence from multiple sources, to have been a real place with a fascinating anthropological background, but with an obfuscated name. There is no suggestion that it was a composite, or made up by Messenger.
- The UCSB SexInfo map [3] strongly suggests that they believe that the island was actually Inishnee (Gaelic: Inis Ní), near the village of Roundstone in County Galway [4], although there is no source information given for that map, so we cannot regard the identification as authoritative. The apparent use of the same map on the SexInfo site and the articles on Inishnee in the Folding Landscape Archive [5] is also suggestive that the SexInfo site is referring to Inishnee: see http://www.iol.ie/~tandmfl/images/inisni2.gif and http://www.soc.ucsb.edu/sexinfo/images/inisbeag.gif respectively. However, since this is all circumstantial evidence inferred from a secondary source, in the absence of an explicit sourced identification of the name of the island, we can't put this in the article.
- Other candidate locations for Inis Beag include: the largest of the Aran Islands, Inishmore (Irish: Árainn (Mhór) or Inis Mór), the middle and second-largest, Inishmaan (Inis Meáin / Inis Meadhóin), and the smallest and most eastern of the Aran Islands, Inisheer (Inis Thiar or Inis Oírr / Inis Oirthir). -- The Anome 12:08, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Inis Beag = Inisheer
I read Messenger's work on the island of 'Inis Beag' and was really interested. So, I was determined to figure out the real name of this place. After reading about all of the Aran islands, it is clear that Inis Oirr (Inisheer) is the island which Messenger wrote about. Inisheer and Inis Beag share the same landmarks (O' Brians castle, St. Kevins sinking church, the Plassey shipwreck) and assume the same geographical shape. Siobhanmurphy (talk) 05:17, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
